sharutils 4.15-1
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The sharutils package contains the GNU shar utilities, a set of tools
for encoding and decoding packages of files (in binary or text format)
in a special plain text format called shell archives (shar). This
format can be sent through e-mail (which can be problematic for
regular binary files). The shar utility supports a wide range of
capabilities (compressing, uuencoding, splitting long files for
multi-part mailings, providing checksums), which make it very flexible
at creating shar files. After the files have been sent, the unshar
tool scans mail messages looking for shar files. Unshar automatically
strips off mail headers and introductory text and then unpacks the
shar files.
Note that unshar is inherently unsafe by design, because it executes
arbitrary shell scripts; therefore the use of shar archives should be
limited to situations where the receiver trusts the sender.
Runtime requirements (these or newer):
bash-4.3.33-1
coreutils-8.23-4
cygwin-1.7.34-6
libgcc1-4.9.2-2 [only needed on 32-bit]
libintl8-0.19.3-1
windows-default-manifest-6.4-1
Optional runtime requirements (needed for 'shar -C'):
bzip2-1.0.6-2
gzip-1.6-1
ncompress-4.2.4.4-3
xz-5.0.8-1
Additional build conditions (these or newer):
binutils-2.25-1
cygport-0.17.1-1
gcc-4.7.3-1
gcc-core-4.9.2-2
gettext-devel-0.19.3-1
Canonical homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils
Canonical download:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils (stable releases)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils (alpha releases)
License:
GPLv3+
Language:
C, sh
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Build instructions:
unpack sharutils-4.15-1-src.tar.xz
if you use setup to install this src package, it will be
unpacked under /usr/src automatically
cd /usr/src
cygport sharutils.cygport all
This will create:
/usr/src/sharutils-4.15-1.tar.xz
/usr/src/sharutils-4.15-1-src.tar.xz
/usr/src/sharutils-debuginfo-4.15-1.tar.xz
Or use 'cygport sharutils.cygport prep' to get a patched source directory
To find out the files included in the binary distribution, you can use
"cygcheck -l sharutils", or browse the listing for the appropriate
version at .
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Port Notes:
----- version 4.15-1 -- 2015-02-16 -----
New upstream version.
----- version 4.14.2-1 -- 2014-12-22 -----
New upstream version.
----- version 4.14-2 -- 2014-10-13 -----
Add debuginfo, drop 'compress' placeholder.
----- version 4.14-1 -- 2014-04-16 -----
New upstream version, first 64-bit build by maintainer.
----- version 4.10-1 -- 2010-09-01 -----
Fix binary mode handling patches.
----- version 4.10-1 -- 2010-08-31 -----
New upstream version.
----- version 4.8-1 -- 2010-02-19 -----
New upstream version.
----- version 4.7-2 -- 2010-01-12 -----
Rebuild for cygwin 1.7.
----- version 4.7-1 -- 2007-07-06 -----
New upstream version, convert to GPLv3.
----- version 4.6.3-1 -- 2006-12-11 -----
New upstream version. Convert to cygport framework.
----- version 4.5.3-1 -- 2005-09-17 -----
New upstream version. Make sure uuencode and uudecode work on text mounts.
----- version 4.5.2-1 -- 2005-09-09 -----
New upstream version, fixes core dump in unshar (unshar must not be
used very much, since no one else complained). New maintainer, Eric
Blake.
----- version 4.4-1 -- 2005-08-02 -----
Built out-of-the-box. This and earlier versions were maintained by
Corinna Vinschen, see the cygwin-announce archives for history.
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For more information about this package, see the upstream documentation in
/usr/share/doc/sharutils/.
Cygwin port maintained by: Eric Blake
Please address all questions to the Cygwin mailing list at